Are you being intentionally stupid? No one was stopping white people from playing sports or anything like what black people had to deal with. That’s her point and why she said it’s racist givin the history. No one was depriving white people like they did and arguably still are blacks and other minority’s. Learn some history.
How is it a stereotype exactly? It’s a fact that black people were slaves in this country not white people. We had the Jim Crow laws. black people were attacked by the kkk not white people. these are facts and not the same as stereotypes.
I hate to tell you this, man but white people were, in fact, slaves in this country, to include my ggg grandmother. Irish "indentured servants" were a hot commodity in Virginia in the 18th to 19th centuries.
Yes indentured servitude was a thing but to act like it was the same thing that black slaves had to deal with is not only wrong but stupid. And after slaverly ended we had Jim Crow laws that were against blacks not whites. And after that we had and still have the drug war.
American slavery and indentured servitude are factually different.
Foremost, indentured servants CHOSE to be indentured servants. They were poor European people who wanted to come to America but couldn't pay for it. In exchange for the freedom America offered, they would work for an agreed upon matter of years before being released as free people and receiving "freedom dues" which may include money, land, housing, and/or animals to begin a farm of their own. Of course this wasn't the only reason indentured servants chose (keyword of the day!) to accept that status. They might be faced with prison time and elect to do work as opposed to sentencing similar to modern-day correctional boot camps (https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/197018.pdf). Do you think slaves had that option? They were owned until the day they died and never received compensation. Irish Indentured Servitude also didn't come with the systematic deep racism that African Slavery did. Once you were a free Irish man, you were free. If you were free and black? Good luck getting an education, property, or any form of job.
Of course, I don't think indentured servitude is okay. It's banned in most countries currently. There's just a difference between "I signed my rights away" and "I never had any rights from the beginning and never will"
Edit: I recommend you read a book called "Copper Sun" by Sharon Draper. It's historical fiction, but tells the story of an indentured servant (Polly) and an African Slave (Amari) who become friends at a plantation and agree to run away together to a then Spanish Colony in modern day Florida. Due to the fact that it hops between perspectives, you see the obvious transition between "Slave" and "Indentured Servant". It's a book I loved as a teenager, not sure it's still good though haha.
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Are you being intentionally stupid? No one was stopping white people from playing sports or anything like what black people had to deal with. That’s her point and why she said it’s racist givin the history. No one was depriving white people like they did and arguably still are blacks and other minority’s. Learn some history.
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White people in the past weren't deprived? And you tell others to read history? Oh boy lol
Are you sure about this?
From what I gather, you are perpetuating the reality/stereotype.
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If I’m wrong show me. It’s just a historical fact that in America none white people were treated worse than white people
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Wow, that makes a whole lot of sense.
Are you intentionally perpetuating a stereotype?
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How is it a stereotype exactly? It’s a fact that black people were slaves in this country not white people. We had the Jim Crow laws. black people were attacked by the kkk not white people. these are facts and not the same as stereotypes.
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I hate to tell you this, man but white people were, in fact, slaves in this country, to include my ggg grandmother. Irish "indentured servants" were a hot commodity in Virginia in the 18th to 19th centuries.
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Yes indentured servitude was a thing but to act like it was the same thing that black slaves had to deal with is not only wrong but stupid. And after slaverly ended we had Jim Crow laws that were against blacks not whites. And after that we had and still have the drug war.
American slavery and indentured servitude are factually different.
Foremost, indentured servants CHOSE to be indentured servants. They were poor European people who wanted to come to America but couldn't pay for it. In exchange for the freedom America offered, they would work for an agreed upon matter of years before being released as free people and receiving "freedom dues" which may include money, land, housing, and/or animals to begin a farm of their own. Of course this wasn't the only reason indentured servants chose (keyword of the day!) to accept that status. They might be faced with prison time and elect to do work as opposed to sentencing similar to modern-day correctional boot camps (https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/197018.pdf). Do you think slaves had that option? They were owned until the day they died and never received compensation. Irish Indentured Servitude also didn't come with the systematic deep racism that African Slavery did. Once you were a free Irish man, you were free. If you were free and black? Good luck getting an education, property, or any form of job.
Of course, I don't think indentured servitude is okay. It's banned in most countries currently. There's just a difference between "I signed my rights away" and "I never had any rights from the beginning and never will"
Edit: I recommend you read a book called "Copper Sun" by Sharon Draper. It's historical fiction, but tells the story of an indentured servant (Polly) and an African Slave (Amari) who become friends at a plantation and agree to run away together to a then Spanish Colony in modern day Florida. Due to the fact that it hops between perspectives, you see the obvious transition between "Slave" and "Indentured Servant". It's a book I loved as a teenager, not sure it's still good though haha.
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How am I racist for saying some of the things that did happen?
I was bred to be extremely anti racist... but reality has made me reassess the truth.